What Violation did Larry Craig Commit?

Question

I Read the Police Report, Perhaps you Could Tell Me What Law he Violated.

Yeah, Studbolt Slickrock Deux, he is a Hypocrite, but this is a Violation of God's Law Not Man's Law.

Oh, Marina G, Hitting On Adult In a Public Place is Illegal In Minnesota.

coragryph, it has Been a Long Time, I Know he Pled Guilty, but was he In Violation of Either of These Statutes From the Police Report?

Thanks, Ilmari_Karjalainen, So a Police Officer's Word is Above Reproach.

Ilmari_Karjalainen, I Have Met People Who I Thought Were Overly Sexually Aggressive, Were they In Violation of Minnesota Law?

So, Dr. Jon, Men Hitting On Other Men, is Illegal, Men Hitting On Women, is Not.

Yeah, Dr. Jon, but was Anything he did Illegal?

Dr. Jon, I Strongly Suspect These Laws Are Selectively Enforced Against Minorities, it Would Be Nice to See Statistics On this, Can this Be Justified? Justifying the Cutting Off a Hand for Theft Could Be Similarly Justified. Was his Crime Having Homosexual Feelings?

Answer 1

I think it was a set up. Why else would the police (airport rent-a-cops) not press the charges of lewdness or solicitation? They just wanted to collect their fine, and let him go.


Sen. Craig's political career is probably over. The abuse of power, however, was not Sen. Craig's but the media's, who pick and choose whose privacy they will violate on a partisan basis.


How many times were we subjected to self-righteous harangues about how investigations into whether Clinton solicited sex from subordinates (thereby cheating on his wife) were intrusions into his "personal life?"

Where were today's guardians of moral and political rectitude back in 1969 when Democrat Ted Kennedy drove drunk and with a suspended license off a bridge with Mary Jo Kopechne left to drown inside of his car? Where were the liberal media outcries to kick Democrat Barney Frank out of the Congress when he solicited a gay prostitute who in turn set up shop in his apartment?

the point remains: Democratic sexual indiscretions are OK while Republicans' are not. It's a double standard.

Answer 2

Dude, if the officer didn't find that there was probable cause to believe that he committed the offense of Disorderly Conduct under the Minn. statutes then he wouldn't've bothered to write up the report and have the city attorney or county attorney charge it out. Plus Disorderly Conduct is a real open-ended criminal offense in Minnesota by how the statute reads. There's a lot of conduct that's within the meaning of the Disorderly Conduct offense in Minnesota. Matter of fact, the absolute first trial I won was a Disorderly Conduct charge, it's an easy one to get somebody on. That isn't to suggest that what he did was somehow OK or whatever. They must have had certain things happening in the men's bathrooms at MSP there otherwise there wouldn't've been the officer there in the stalls.

Answer 3

EDIT: Apparently in the manner he did it, in a bathroom, it is. No do I agree with it? No comment. :) But like someone said, the hypocrisy says a lot about what a person would do to be elected.

Here you go doc,

My guess is they charged him with this instead of waiting longer and getting the solicitation of prostitution or if not prostitution, sex acts, which we have to assume he was going after.

"....was nabbed in a men's restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after he apparently sought some same-stall action from a plainclothes cop. In a District Court complaint, Craig was charged with peeping and disorderly conduct. He pleaded guilty earlier this month to the misdemeanor disorderly conduct count and was fined $1000 and sentenced to ten days in the Hennepin County lockup (though the jail time was stayed as long as the politician keeps clean for a year). According to the Airport Police Department report by Sgt. Dave Karsnia, Craig, 62, appeared versed in the subtle signs of seeking a stall assignation, from under-the-divider hand motions to some furtive footsie."

Police info, charges, and plea below...

Answer 4

And these people have the gall to criticize Bill & Hillary Clinton, right or wrong the Clintons are far more normal Senators Craig, Foley and Hastert. So much for your "Family Values" GOP. If you have folks who tip toe through the tulips, at least own up to it. He was peeking into a public bathroom at an airport policeman, then when the officer showed no interest, he gave his Congressional business card to the officer, like it's supposed to make it ok. He was known to be a steadfast blowhard conservative who has opposed gays in the military and gay marriage, on top of the fact he has a wife and family, he is doing a poor job of protecting. I am always suspicious of conservative "family values" blowhards; they tend to be hipocrites who are trying to compensate for something! Like not having the homelife they pretend to have!

Answer 5

He was charged with two violations -- invasion of privacy (a lewdness charge) and disorderly conduct.

He plead guilty to the disorderly conduct.
Minnesota Code section 609.72

Answer 6

HE DID NOT HAVE A LAWYER PRESENT FOR THE INTERVIEW.

A U.S. SENATOR ought to have an entourage of 2 or 3 staff or family with THEM as they travel. Keep them out of LOBBYIST's intervention / entrapments.

ENTRAPMENT was the situation in the stalls. Men who tuck in their shirttails or have long shirts need to drop their guard to use the toilet to perform the relieve of oneself of urine, to keep from getting their shirts / pants wet.

Most stalls are TOO SMALL for taller men with long legs, to keep their trousers from falling all the way to the floor.

Some of us will pick up trash, paper that we have dropped, to be polite and clean as that is how we were brought to be aware and considerate of others.

THAT DAMN TOILET PAPER COMES APART TO EASILY, LIKE SHERYL CROW WANTS US TOO USE ONLY ONE SQUARE.

Answer 7

wow!
you are one of those typical repubs that are in total denial that he or anyone in the bush admin has done anything wrong.

oh and the crime was: a misdemeanor of disorderly conduct of a sexual nature. So as if you didn't know, a misdemeanor is a violation.

keep on drinking the kool aid and wearing those rose tinted glasses.

Answer 8

Common decency, societal dislike for hypocrisy, gross bathroom conduct... yeah, you're right. He didn't violate any "laws". That's the way you like your liars, uh? "Legal"?

Answer 9

disorderly conduct. being gross. and being a pathetic hypocrite.

Answer 10

He wasn't a Democrat, so he doesn't get away with it.